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You Don’t Belong On That Cross

The American Church has been feeling the loss of their cultural relevance, and they’re not taking it very well. It offends them deeply. The last thing they needed was to lose the social privilege...

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Revisiting Tim Keller’s The Reason for God

I don’t really care for apologetics books. It’s a tedious chore to make it all the way through them, and interacting with them is exhausting because for every single word it takes to put forth a bad...

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Christian History, Revised

Tim Keller must read history through a highly specialized pair of lenses, because what he sees when he looks back is very different from what I see. His version reminds me of those friends on social...

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The Evolution of Hell in The Reason for God

Growing up in an evangelical church I was taught that no matter what it is you want or need, God himself is the answer. You need comfort or security? God is where you get it. You want guidance or...

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Believing In Evolution, But Not Too Much

Moving on to Chapter 6 in his The Reason for God, Tim Keller takes on Richard Dawkins, who argues in The God Delusion that scientific literacy and religious belief are inversely related. The more a...

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Your Religion Is Special, Just Like All the Others

I remember once believing that my religion was unlike all other religions in the world. Christianity was special, possessing qualities that no other religion had, and for me that spoke to its...

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But Why Does There Have to Be Blood?

With only three more chapters to go in Tim Keller‘s The Reason for God, it appears the pastor of Redeemer Church in Manhattan has abandoned the central thesis of the book. Perhaps we came to this with...

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Christians Need Their Faith to Be True

When you leave the Christian faith, people come out of the woodwork to impugn your motives for leaving. First I was informed that I did it so that I could have more sex, then I was told I did it to...

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Making Space for Non-Binary Children In a Red State

“This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments culture wars of men.” –Matt. 15:8-9, NIV* Sarah is a former...

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Christianity Was Never About Democracy, Anyway

Christianity, it turns out, has never been interested in democracy. People used to tell me it is, and I’m sure those people are still out there, feeding the same old narratives to an ever-dwindling and...

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